The BioWare Blog announces Operation: PATRIOT as this weekend's special event in Mass Effect 3. This is now underway, offering special goals and rewards for participants. They also announce they've added the ability to unlock the Argus Assault Rifle in multiplayer play, offering a weapon previously only available in solo play. Finally, they have updated their multiplayer battle telemetry, an infographic with statistics on what's happened since the Reaper invasion.

Suckage wrote on Sep 21, 2012, 22:00:Does anyone play this still? I never managed to join a single multiplayer game: I'd always get kicked by the host. I guess it's one of these things meant to be played within your friends list.

I've probably played about 100 matches with random squads, maybe a bit more, and I've only been kicked once. I can't imagine why you would get kicked frequently unless you're trying to join one of the higher difficulties with a level 1 character or lousy weapons. That said, I haven't played ME3 in a couple months now. Maybe it's different?

Dades wrote on Sep 21, 2012, 22:24:Every weekend is an event for these guys, it kind of loses its meaning when you do that.

Every other weekend, but yeah, it's kinda become dull. And now they've gone and made it impossible to just solo the squad goal, so ugh. Trying to extract with all squad members only to watch one moron walk out of the extraction zone with 5 seconds left is not my idea of fun anymore.

Bioware clearly refuses to spend more than 5 minutes coming up with these weekend "events", but to be fair, that's approximately 3 minutes more than they spend on their weekly "balancing" sessions.

Suckage wrote on Sep 21, 2012, 22:00:Does anyone play this still? I never managed to join a single multiplayer game: I'd always get kicked by the host. I guess it's one of these things meant to be played within your friends list.

GW2, BL2 and now Torchlight 2 have made the PC mp a barren wasteland. You can't even find a match anymore. I guess the Xbox crowd still plays.